Intel
Corporation and Cloudera
today announced a broad strategic technology and business collaboration,
as well as a significant equity investment from Intel (News - Alert) making it
Cloudera's largest strategic shareholder and a member of its board of
directors. This is Intel's single largest data center technology
investment in its history. The deal will join Cloudera's leading
enterprise analytic data management software powered by Apache
Hadoop™ with the leading data center architecture based on Intel®
Xeon® technology. The goal is acceleration of customer adoption of big
data solutions, making it easier for companies of all sizes to obtain
increased business value from data by deploying open source Apache
Hadoop solutions. Both the strategic collaboration and the equity
investment are subject to standard closing conditions, including
customary regulatory approvals.

Cloudera will develop and optimize Cloudera's Distribution including
Apache Hadoop (CDH) for Intel architecture as its preferred platform and
support a range of next-generation technologies including Intel fabrics,
flash memory and security. In turn, Intel will market and promote CDH
and Cloudera Enterprise to its customers as its preferred Hadoop
platform. Intel will focus its engineering and marketing resources on
the joint roadmap. The optimizations from Intel's Distribution for
Apache Hadoop/Intel Data Platform (IDH/IDP) will be integrated into CDH
and IDH/IDP and will be transitioned after v3.1 release at the end of
March. To ensure a seamless customer transition to CDH, Intel and
Cloudera will work together on a migration path from IDH/IDP. Cloudera
will also ensure that all enhancements will be contributed to their
respective open source projects and CDH.

The collaboration with Cloudera promises to enhance both Intel data
center and Internet of Things (IoT) technology initiatives by enabling
customers to manage and analyze machine-generated data from a variety of
sources, spanning sensors to gateways and a range of devices.

"By aligning the Cloudera and Intel roadmaps, we are creating the
platform of choice for big data analytics," said Diane Bryant, senior
vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group. "We
expect to accelerate industry adoption of the Hadoop data platform and
enable companies to mine their data for insights that inform the
business. This collaboration spans our data center technology from
compute to network, security and storage, and extends to our initiatives
for the Internet of Things."

Both companies remain committed to the open source community that has
been the driving force behind Hadoop. The companies will also execute
joint go-to-market strategies that include coordinated product, channel
and sales programs.

"Hadoop has changed the entire conversation around data" said Tom
Reilly, chief executive officer, Cloudera. "Based on our ability to
store, process and analyze all kinds of data, increasingly in new ways,
the potential for advances in business, social and economic environments
are vast. Teaming with Intel, the industry leader in data center
technology innovation, presents an opportunity for us to layer Hadoop
into a platform's core framework. The result is rapid performance
improvements on workloads such as those extracting intelligent insight.
Intel's vision for delivering open, performance optimized solutions for
big data is synergistic to our vision to help companies accelerate time
to achieving success."

About Intel

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The
company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the
foundation for the world's computing devices. Additional information
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Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other
countries.

About Cloudera

Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the
first unified Platform for Big Data: The Enterprise Data Hub. Cloudera
offers enterprises one place to store, process and analyze all their
data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while
enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Founded
in 2008, Cloudera was the first and is still today the leading provider
and supporter of Hadoop for the enterprise. Cloudera also offers
software for business critical data challenges including storage,
access, management, analysis, security and search. With over 20,000
individuals trained, Cloudera is a leading educator of data
professionals, offering the industry's broadest array of Hadoop training
and certification programs. Cloudera works with over 900 hardware,
software and services partners to meet customers' big data goals.
Leading organizations in every industry run Cloudera in production,
including finance, telecommunications, retail, internet, utilities, oil
and gas, healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, networking and media, plus top
public sector organizations globally. www.cloudera.com

Cloudera, Cloudera's Platform for Big Data, CLoudera Enterprise Basic
Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Flex Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
Edition and CDH are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera
Inc. in the United States, and in jurisdictions throughout the world.
All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of
their respective owners.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the
proposed transactions between Intel and Cloudera, including but not
limited to statements regarding Intel's equity investment in Cloudera
and in the development of and adoption of Hadoop and Intel data center
technology. Actual events or results may differ materially from those
contained in these forward-looking statements. Among the important
factors that could cause future events or results to vary from those
addressed in the forward-looking statements are risks and uncertainties
arising from, among other things, the possibility that the closing of
the transactions may be delayed or may not occur; the ability of Intel
and Cloudera to align their product roadmaps; demand for and market
acceptance of the products offered by Intel and Cloudera; and
developments in competing technologies. For other factors that could
cause Intel's results to vary from expectations, please see the risks
detailed from time to time in Intel's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form
10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.
Intel undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any
forward-looking statements.